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Ok sounds good! Yes my movies are in it's own folder:
Example:
Can't Hardly Wait/Can't Hardly Wait 1998.mkv
Pulp Fiction/Pulp Fiction 1994.mkv Pulp Fiction 1994.srt
Some movies I have the srt file that need them.... this would be ok right? the two files will stay together even doh they are being spread around hard drives?
You guys are making me understand this correctly.... I wana do this right the first time.
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LOL LOL LOL ..... first two movies that popped in my head..... kinda funny now that I think about it.
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2011-09-14, 15:54
(This post was last modified: 2011-09-15, 18:51 by wsume99.)
I have my shares arranged as follows:
Movies share split level is set to 1. Individual movies are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
Movies/Movie Title/Movie Title.mkv
TV share split level is set to 2. Individual seasons are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
TV/Show Name/Season #/Show Name S##E##.mkv
Music share split level is set to 2. Individual albums are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
Music/Artist Name/Album/Title.mp3
For all my shares I have all disks included. All my spindown timers are set to 15 minutes. I also use the most free alocation method with the min free space set at 30000000. The only thing I do that is a little unusual is that when I add a movie to my movie share I manually place it on the disk I want it to be on. So rather than creating a folder in //Tower/Movies I create it in //Tower/disk #/Movies. The reason I do this is so that I can put all my kids movies on one disk and all the grown-up movies onto a different disk. I suppose I could have just created two different shares but I like having all my movies in one share. The reason that I split them up this way is becase I noticed that my disks were being spun up and down a lot on days my kids would watch movies. This was because they would watch a movie that was on disk 1 and then the next movie might be on disk 2. So by putting all their movies onto a single disk now I don't have that problem anymore.
Personally I don't think there is a right or wrong way to setup your network shares. It really depends on your own situation and what makes sense to you.
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Pics are up on the first page.... thanx guys for all your help.
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Hey Beer40, hows the temp on your HDD's?
the 5K3000 is hotter then the WD greens?
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wow, nice temp Hitachi's have!!
i think their own their way to be crowned unRAID champions!!
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One of the reasons for not using a 7200 drive for parity is when you need more space you buy a new drive which will usually be bigger than you current parity drive, which means you either add the 7200 drive as a data drive or sell it.
If you sell it you probably wont be upgrading space by much, and if you add it to the array you are just adding unneeded heat etc.
I find a cache drive helpful for applications such as sickbeard / sabnzbd and also as kind of a staging area, if something comes down and if in the wrong place for whatever reason I have until the mover script executes to change it before it gets written to the array.
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